id our forefathers, I believe it is self-evident that God created the universe in which we live. God is triune: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. There are three distinct individual persons. They are of one essence. Just as humanity consists of one blood, one flesh, and one essence, yet many individual persons. Husband and wife consist of two individual persons, still they are one flesh. God observed mankind building the Tower of Babel and commented, “Behold, the people (are) one . . .” Thus, many individuals but one people.Like our forefathers I believe that God is the Creator and Giver of all life. Man, above all other life forms, was uniquely made in the image and likeness of God. God said so Himself. Therefore, the very character of God serves as the foundation for human moral conduct. This information is provided by the Creator innately to each individual and is in actuality what we call conscience.
Man, although made in God’s very image is fallen in his nature [Adam and Eve is not merely a story – but absolute fact] and therefore must be personally and individually redeemed. It is only by the blood of the ultimate sacrifice – the God, the man - Jesus Christ. That is the bottom line issue for me and everyone else who chooses to deal with the ultimate reality of sin and separation from God.
That being said, good and evil are, in fact, a living reality! Scriptures [the Judeo-Christian Bible] outline all the essential principles that we need to live by. Scripture also describes God’s plan for men and women, and for society. God’s plan includes: an on-going acknowledgment and dependence on Him [school prayer; national sovereignty – and logically a strong national defense and military; war on terror – forces out to destroy freedom and good; strict constructionist judges who will interpret and not make laws;; abolishment of the United Nations; teaching creationism, inelligent design equally with other teachings about the origin of life; freedom to pray anytime, anywhere; freedom of religion (practical living of one’s personal faith anywhere and everywhere) and not freedom from religion], family established and nurtured only under a heterosexual marriage relationship [parental choice in education], sanctity of life from conception to natural death [pro-life at all stages of life; pro-adult stem cell only research], being debt-free [deficit elimination measures; wise government spending; lowering taxes; fair tax initiative], and dealing with the person and provision God provided to each human being – Jesus Christ [a personal salvation experience]. The issues for which I stand are italicized. Here is the foundation of my beliefs. It is God, and He alone, who is the only judge to whom I am accountable for my life and actions. It is Him I must please.
It is absolutely insidious how far we have strayed and allowed this great nation to move from the rock-solid core founding beliefs of the founding fathers. We are all partially at fault and true believers much more so, since we have been asleep at the proverbial wheel of life, apathetic in applying and protecting our rights and blessings which God provided. We have seen many of the rights and blessings gradually disappear in our ease and comfortable stupor! We must wake up, and strengthen the things that remain. As Bob Dylan once sang, “you gotta serve somebody – God or the devil.” That is the living reality we face today, that is the choice that we face.
More than anywhere else, in America the voter is king and the elected officials serve at the voters’ pleasure. Americans can choose to live godly, God-fearing and moral lifestyles and elect likeminded representatives. These representatives will, in turn, enact wholesome, just and holy laws and thereby bring God’s favor on society. On the other hand, Americans can also choose to live immoral or ungodly lifestyles and consequently elect representatives which are much like themselves, who most likely will enact unjust, unholy immoral laws and cause God’s disfavor on society.
God sums it up in His own unprecedented bestseller, The Bible, “Know therefore this day, and consider it in your heart, that the Lord He is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else. You shall keep therefore His statutes and His commandments, which He commands you this day, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you and you may prolong your days upon the earth which the Lord your God gives you.”
We need to consider very deliberately how we live today and everyday as well as who we elect to represent us. In Ohio on May 2nd we can take a step forward by moving back onto the difficult, narrow road to past greatness, or we can continue on the broad, easy, comfortable road to self-destruction. The choice today is that clear! Truth is always A Good Choice.
There are now only 16 more days until Ohio Voters can make A Good Choice on Tuesday, May 2nd in the Democratic Primary Election!
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ReplyDelete"Capital punishment - Because humans are created in the image of God, He has declared that those who take a life should also lose their lives."
This I understand. Eye for an Eye. That would change the crime rate, I'm sure.
Where my confusion sets in are the posts I'm reading all over the internet that state that you actually said all homosexuals should be put to death. How can you claim that you are a man of faith, quote the Bible and then in the very next sentance say you want all homosexuals to die? "Thou shalt not kill." Death without justice is murder.
If you want to kill all homosexuals that would make you a muderer and subjuect you to the same law that murders should be put to death, does it not?
I wonder what would Jesus say? I hear this and it really makes me think. I was raised with God, an open mind and a belief that all people should be treated as you would want be done unto to you. I have held this truth to be my core and I have treated my brethren as such. I wonder now with all the finger pointing and blaming and accusing, and fear, and lies and ignorance, and preaching, who actually wants this to be done unto them?
ReplyDeleteWith that truth I also hold with it the deep national pride of being a daughter of the revolution. I have in my heart my own family history of my mothers and fathers fighting for freedom. A freedom from religious persecution, social class distinction, taxes, land ownership and pride. With a pride based on the constitution written by faithful people with the understanding of how dangerous it is to allow religious beliefs to influence politics and law.
The basis of this blessed country exists on the foundation of separation of church and state for a good reason. We all rejoice in laws that suit our own good morally but when laws are based on religious doctrine we jeopardize the freedoms of religion. Understand the fundamental core of this and you will see the brilliance of our founding fathers. The freedom of religion allows us as people to practice our beliefs without persecution and with that freedom we have to accept those that believe something else.
We have to stand strong as a nation of enlightened people in order to shine across the world. In order to shine we must agree to disagree and continue to love as God and Jesus would.